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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
Superordo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
Subordo: Helicina
Infraordo: Helicoidei
Superfamilia: Sagdoidea

Familia: Sagdidae
Subfamiliae (5): Aquebaninae – Platysuccineinae – Polydontinae – Sagdinae – Yunqueinae
Overview of genera (29)

Aerotrochus – Aquebana – Coloniconcha – Corneosagda – Exsuavitas – Granodomus – Hispaniolana – Hojeda – Hyalosagda – Lacteoluna – Lissembryon – Luquillia – Meiophysema – Microsagda – Odontosagda – Parthena – Platysuccinea – Polydontes – Proserpinula – Sagda – Salleana – Stauroglypta – Strialuna – Taenioraphe – Vilitas – Volvidens – Xenodiscula – Yunquea – Zaphysema
Name

Sagdidae Pilsbry, 1895
References
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Sagdidae in the World Register of Marine Species

Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea[2] and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea.[3] Some species of Sagdidae are ovoviviparous.[4]
Anatomy

Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.
Subfamilies and genera

The family Sagdidae consists of the following subfamilies:[2]

Aquebaninae H. B. Baker, 1940
Platysuccineinae H. B. Baker, 1940
Polydontinae Schileyko, 2006
Sagdinae Pilsbry, 1895
Yunqueinae Schileyko, 1998

Genera in the family Sagdidae include:[5]

The type genus is Sagda Beck, 1837.

Aerotrochus
Aquebana
Corneosagda
Granodomus Wurtz, 1955
Hispaniolana Pilsbry, 1933
Hojeda
Hyalosagda
Lacteoluna
Meiophysema
Microsagda
Odontosagda - Odontosagda blandii
Platysuccinea
Proserpinula
Sagda
Stauroglypta
Strialuna
Suavitas
Trifaux
Vilitas
Volvidens
Xenodiscula
Zaphysema

References

Pilsbry H. A. (2 February) 1895 Guide to the study of helices. Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. 36, 33a:i-xlviii, 161-336, plates 41-71. (Sagdinae is on page xxxii.)
Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
Wade, Christopher M.; Mordan, Peter B.; Naggs, Fred (2006). "Evolutionary relationships among the Pulmonate land snails and slugs (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87 (4): 593–610. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00596.x.
Goodfriend, Glenn A. (1986). "Radiation of the land snail genus Sagda (Pulmonata: Sagdidae): comparative morphology, biogeography and ecology of the species of north-central Jamaica". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87 (4): 367–398. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1986.tb01341.x.
Sagdidae. Discover Life, accessed 6 December 2008.

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